[Maxima] suggestion: remove mbox from maxima; minor bug revealed.

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at gmail.com> writes:

    Stavros> "much faster"?  Not with a half-decent compiler, which translates short
    Stavros> memq's to multiple eq's.  On the PDP-10 compiler, (memq ... '(a b)) took
    Stavros> only two more machine instructions than (eq ... 'a).  But then, maybe modern
    Stavros> compilers aren't as good.

MEMQ isn't standard so Maxima has it's own version of MEMQ:  (member x
list :test #'eq), and it's a not an inline function, so it would be
slow.  

But CMUCL (and maybe SBCL) can convert MEMQ to an inlined equivalent.

Ray